Brett Halsey (born June 20, 1933, in Santa Ana, California), is an American film actor, sometimes credited as Montgomery Ford. He is best known as the original John Abbott on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, a role he held from 1980 to 1982, before being replaced by Jerry Douglas.
In 1958, Halsey guest starred in the episode "The Imposter" of Richard Carlson's syndicated western television series Mackenzie's Raiders, a fictional account...
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Brett Halsey (born June 20, 1933, in Santa Ana, California), is an American film actor, sometimes credited as Montgomery Ford. He is best known as the original John Abbott on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, a role he held from 1980 to 1982, before being replaced by Jerry Douglas.
In 1958, Halsey guest starred in the episode "The Imposter" of Richard Carlson's syndicated western television series Mackenzie's Raiders, a fictional account of cavalry Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie. Halsey also guest starred in Wendell Corey's Harbor Command, a military drama about the United States Coast Guard.
From 1961–1962, Halsey starred with Barry Coe and Gary Lockwood in the ABC television series Follow the Sun, a story of two magazine free-lance writers living in Honolulu, Hawaii.
In 1961, Halsey won the Golden Globe Award for "New Star of the Year". His Follow the Sun co-star, Barry Coe, had won the same honor in 1960. The award was discontinued in 1983.
Halsey played supporting and co...
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